Library Closed – Adding Curbside Pickup

Due to the extended Governor’s stay-at-home order, all Palatine Public Library District facilities will remain Closed. New Curbside Pickup service starts June 2. Begin returning materials on May 20. Due dates extended through June 30. Watch the website and social media for updates. .

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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
Two sisters return to their Australian hometown to make sense of the unsolved disappearance of their best friends from 20 years earlier. Ebook and EAudiobook copies are available in Overdrive and Hoo...

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The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
A novel set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris follows the director of a Chicago art gallery and a woman looking for her estranged daughter in Paris who both struggle to come to terms with the ways AIDS h...

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Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia
Maya Stark, a language therapist at a psychiatric facility, is challenged when a boy missing for ten years refuses to speak about his father, the ransacked campsite they both disappeared from, or what has transpired o...

Cancelled - From the Southampton Hampshire Chronicle of 1772 to the current issue of the Daily Herald, learn which archived newspapers are available at the Library and how to use them for family and historical research.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The story of a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both amid the violence of 1990s Columbia.
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